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PATBNTED MAR. 31, 1908.. w. MOL'BNAAR.

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APPLICATION FILED JULY 27. `1907.

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`VWITNESSES` No. 883,468. PATENTBD MAR. 3l, 1908. W. MOLENAAR.

BILL FILE.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 27.1907.

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WILLIAM MOL'ENAAR, OF PATERSON, NEW JERSEY.

BILL-FILE To all whom. it muy concer/n.'

Be it known that l, Vl//'ILIJAM a citizen of the United States,Paterson, Passaic county, New Jersey, have invented a certain new anduseful Improvement in Bill-Files; and I do hereby declare the followingto be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such aswill enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make anduse the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and toletters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of thisspecification.

My inventionrelates to systems for keeping accounts of credit saleswithout resorting to books, and it has reference particularly to novelapparatus whereby accounts by grocers, butchers and other merchants withtheir customers may be kept in a simple and convenient manner.

The apparatus used is shown in the accompanying drawings, wherein,

Figure 1 is a front view; Fig. 2 a side. view, partly in section; Fig. 3a vertical sectional view, substantially full size, .of thebill-holders; Fig. 4 is a perspective view of one of said bill-holdersdetacl'ied.

ln said drawing, c is a cabinet comprising the side walls c', the backwall l), the top wall c and the bottom wall c'. Above and parallel withthe bottoni wall d is a wall e, and in front MOLENAAR, residing 1n ofand parallel with the back wall Z) is a Wallf.

g and /1 are suitable guides attached to the side walls a, in the spaceformed between the wall d and wall e. Between the guides 7i, and thebottom l slides a drawer or till fi; between the guides g and lz isarrangeda slide y' in which may b`e placed a slate 7c marked off .inspaces for the names of the customers and their numbers, and between thewall c and guides ,c is arranged a sliding-leaf' Z. The -front edges ofthe sides (L are inclined and inner faces, as at m, and in these groovesruns a flexible.sliding'cover n, of the kind used in roll-top desks;means is provided at o so that the cover will automatically lock itselfwhen closed, p being a hole for the insert-,ion of a key to manipulatethe lock. The wall e is formed with a transverse groove g in its upperface. In this is set the lower end of a channeled sheet metal support rwhose upper end may rest against the wall said support, with the partsit carries, is thus removable from the cabinet.

The sides s of the support are connected by Specification of LettersPatent. Application filed July 27, 1907.

Patented March 31, 1908. Serial No. 385,774.

the wires t. Thesewires form the pivots for the billholders u. Tocheapen and simplify the construction of these bill-holders, they areformed as follows: Each bill-holder comprises two members, '1i and w. eis a piece of sheet metal having its side edges .1: turned up andpenetrated by the wires t, which thus allows pivotal' movement of thebill-holders. By slitting the lower edge of the member o, as at y, themiddle portion thereof is turned off forwardly to form the lip e whichextends over the wire t; a lip l is similarly formed at the upper edgeof member o. Member w is also a piece of sheet metal, and this has itslower end first bent rearwardly, as at 2, and then downwardly, as at 3;member 'w is so arranged with reference to member u that its )ortion 2stands between lip e and wire t, while its portion 3 is behind wire t.

Two coiled springs 4 are employed to keep the vmembers of eachbill-holder together and hold the various bill-holders against eachother, as shown in Fig. 1. Each spring is penetrated by the wire t andis disposed near the wall a: of the member o of the correspondingbill-holder, having one end bearing against the member w, which may becut out as at 5 to receive it, and its other end bearing against thesupporta' or the wall e in the case of the lowern'iost billwholder. Thelip 1 acts in each instance to properly space the several bill-holdersand it also affords a recess to receive the finger in parting member wfrom member fr.

In order to prevent unauthorized persons from having access to the index7c or the drawer i, each of these is connected by the flexibleconnections 14 and 15, respectively, with the top of the cover a bymeans of suit able eyes 16, the connections passing around rollers orthe like 17. Thus when the cover is in the closed position, theconsequent pull on connections 14 and 15 will draw in the drawer andslide and hold them in that position, from whence they cannot be drawnout again until the cover is unlocked and raised.

Having thus fully described my invention what I claim as new and desireto secure by Letters Patent is:

1. The combination, of a suitable sup ort, a pivot arranged therein, anda bill-holder, sa1d bill-hold er comprising a member having a bearing onsaid pivot and a lip parallel with The member bearing on said pivot anda lip parallel with the same and another member opposed to saidirst-named member and having its lower end turned in between said lipand the pivot and then turned 0H at an angle, and springs arranged onsaid pivot and bearing against the support and said other member,substantially as described.

3. A bill-holder comprising a pivot and two members, one of said membersbeing arranged on the pivot and the other member having a portionthereof extended between the pivot and said .first-named member andhaving a bend locking it in position, substan-i tially as described.

4. The combination of a suitable support and pivoted therein face toface, each relatively rear member in each pair having the freeedge-portion thereof cut out to form a lip and said lip being bent ofi'at an angle to the -body of said members exposing the lupper portion ofthe Corresponding front member and spacing said rear member from thefront member of the pair of members back of it, substantially asdeseribed.

In testimony, that I claim the foregoing, I have hereunto. set my handthis 24th day of July, i907.

*WILLIAM MOLILNAAR.

Witnesses:

WM. D. BELL, JOHN W. STEwnRD.

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